GQ media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give GQ one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. We have seen it on 3 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is GQ biased?
The rating organisations do not give GQ one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is GQ left or right?
The rating organisations do not give GQ one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is GQ reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for GQ are Ad Fontes Media: Mixed factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What GQ has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with GQ’s own report linked underneath.
Spain came from behind to beat England 3-2 in their Nations League opener at Wembley. Lamine Yamal scored early for Spain, but England led 2-1 before halftime. Harry Kane missed a penalty while England was ahead, and Mikel Oyarzabal scored the winning goal for Spain.
GQ reported it asEngland vs Spain: Alignments, Schedule and Where to See EN LIVE the Match (opens GQ in a new tab)
Apple has launched its first foldable smartphone, the iPhone Duo, at its 'Surprise and Shine' event. The company also introduced the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max. This marks the first major product launch under new CEO John Ternus.
GQ reported it asApple’s Folding iPhone Duo Is for Everyone Complaining that Apple Lost Its Touch (opens GQ in a new tab)
Apple CEO John Ternus posted a cryptic video ahead of the company's expected iPhone 18 Pro unveiling. The video appears to hint at a new variable aperture camera feature for the device, which is set to be announced alongside new Apple Watch models.
GQ reported it asApple’s Folding iPhone Duo Is for Everyone Complaining that Apple Lost Its Touch (opens GQ in a new tab)
Apple has launched its first foldable smartphone, the iPhone Duo, at its 'Surprise and Shine' event. The company also introduced the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max. This marks the first major product launch under new CEO John Ternus.
GQ reported it asiPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max: Features, Models and Colors (opens GQ in a new tab)
Apple CEO John Ternus posted a cryptic video ahead of the company's expected iPhone 18 Pro unveiling. The video appears to hint at a new variable aperture camera feature for the device, which is set to be announced alongside new Apple Watch models.
GQ reported it asiPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max: Features, Models and Colors (opens GQ in a new tab)
Who says so
3 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
High factuality
Who owns it
- Condé Nastunknowndirect owner
- Advance PublicationsMedia Conglomerateparent group
Where it publishes from
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 3
- Reports listed
- 5
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 9 September 2026
5 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
We have not seen GQ cover a story that outlets rated left were largely absent from.
Across the 3 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of GQ: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 25 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 2 October 2026. Ratings pulled 10 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as GQ, also publishing from United States, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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The leanings above are published by AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check, and we republish them rather than make them. If you think one is misapplied, the strongest place to say so is with the organisation that made it, and every verdict here links to their page.
What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where GQ publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
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Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.